Examples on Defense Mechanisms

 1- Regression : for instance, a young wife might retreat to the security of her parents' home after her first quarrel with her husband


2- Projection : a person might hate someone, but his superego tells him that such hatred is unacceptable, he can 'solve' the problem by believing that they hate him.


3- Denial : for instance, smokers may refuse to admit to themselves that smoking have a bad effect on their health.


4- Rationalization : for example, when a student justifying his cheating on an exam by saying that everyone else cheats.


5- Compensation : when someone not good at athletics, puts all of his energies into becoming an academic scholar.


6: Undoing : for example, a man who gets a tax refund by cheating on his taxes, makes a larger-than-usual donation at the church collection on the following Sunday.

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Introduction

  Defense mechanisms   are behaviors used to separate themselves from unpleasant actions or thoughts. The psychological strategies may help ...